Asian Century Or Multi-polar Century?

David Dollar's 2007 World Bank working paper makes a genuinely interesting contrarian argument — that 'Asian century' framing overstates the case and a multipolar world is more likely — but it is a policy paper, not a book, and its 2005-era data has been substantially overtaken by subsequent events. Economists and policy scholars may find it worth reading as a historical data point in the China-rise debate, but it holds little value for general readers.